Definition of Archlet

1. a little arch [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Archlet

archival science
archival sciences
archivalism
archivally
archive
archived
archiver
archivers
archives
archiving
archivist
archivists
archivolt
archivolts
archizoic
archlet (current term)
archlets
archlike
archlute
archlutes
archly
archmage
archmages
archmagi
archmagician
archmagicians
archmarshal
archmarshals
archmodernist
archmodernists

Literary usage of Archlet

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Geologist by Newton Horace Winchell (1889)
"... is furnished by the archlet. This is represented, in the brachial valve, by a faintly impressed semi-circular line in front of the platform. (See fig. ..."

2. Structural and Systematic Conchology: An Introduction to the Study of the by George Washington Tryon (1882)
"... within the margin* of their posterior half, including the hinge; a submarginal impression or archlet characterizes the anterior half of the valves. ..."

3. Structural and Systematic Conchology: An Introduction to the Study of the by George Washington Tryon (1884)
"... within the margins of their posterior half, including the hinge; a submarginal impression or'archlet characterizes the anterior half of the valves. ..."

4. Rudimentary Dictionary of Terms Used in Architecture, Civil, Architecture by John Weale (1850)
"... the florid Perpendicular, and Tudor; as (I.) the tendency to subordinate the arch and archlet to the frame-work of vertical and horizontal lines; ..."

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